Tuna pasta bake This is a great dish to serve to a crowd. Simple to make and you can even prep it ahead. This classic tuna pasta bake recipe is a student favourite and is tasty enough for a midweek family meal too.

Ingredients of Tuna pasta bake

  1. You need 1 can of cream of mushroom soup.
  2. You need 1 can of cream of chicken soup.
  3. It's 1/2 can of milk.
  4. It's 1 can of sweetcorn.
  5. You need 4 can of tuna.
  6. You need 250 grams of Penne pasta.
  7. You need 1 pinch of salt.
  8. Prepare 150 grams of grated cheese (est).

Tuna pasta bake instructions

  1. Fill large pan 3/4 full of cold water and bring to the boil, once boiling add the pasta and a pinch of salt, cook until soft..
  2. Whilst pasta is cooking open the cans of tuna and drain the oil/water place to one side whilst preparing next step..
  3. Next open the cans of soup and sweetcorn and put in a small-medium pan..
  4. Put the pan on heat then half fill one of the empty soup cans with milk and pour it in with the soup and sweetcorn whilst stirring..
  5. Stir in the cans of tuna into the mixture and continue to heat until hot..
  6. Once pasta is cooked drain it and place it back into the pan, stir in the hot soup, tuna, sweetcorn mixture until pasta is coated..
  7. Pre heat oven to gas mark 6 (200 degrees c).
  8. Next put the mixture into a casserole dish and grate some cheese over the mixture making sure to coat it sufficiently. (Cheese optional).
  9. Place into the centre of the oven and cook for 15 minutes..

Place a large shallow pan over a medium-high heat. Tuna gets such a bad rap. I bet you wouldn't turn down this tuna pasta bake though! I remember in grade school, I would always dread the day that I would be the one to bring a tuna fish sandwich for lunch or to bring those tuna cracker packets. Tuna Mornay is how you elevate canned tuna above a glum pantry staple or worse still, a desperate meal eaten straight from the can!

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